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Why is it always you who puts forward absurd numbers like that? First days worth of gameplay time of a single DS2 run and now this. You wouldn't happen to have Asperger's would you? Because that would explain a lot. Well, or I am just far too gullible. Anyways, the weirdest run I did was Blaster-only on Nightmare. Took a while to finish it.

What does that even mean? One thing arcade shooters had was challenge. You needed to have a lot of loose screws in your head to select Nightmare in Doom or Quake without being bloody good at the game. Part of that challenge is maintaining health. While the difficulties don't affect damage (afaik) they do ramp up the enemy counts absurdly while actually taking health items away. When you can regenerate health without any penalties or catches you could play Quake on Nightmare on your first run by just hiding behind the next pillar or backtracking to the last corridor whenever your health gets a tad low during firefights. For me hunting for health is a fun part of the gameplay. All those times when I was low on health and backtracked to find health items I didn't need earlier were just plain fun and added a sense of real danger that I might have royally screwed up. Even if you did have just 1 HP you could get away with it with a mixture of luck and skill if you forgot to save for too long. I wish more games used the system in Chronicles of Riddick. You have a number of "cubes" of health. When you take damage pieces of the right-most cube will disappear to the left direction. If you lose a whole cube it will not regenerate but the damaged cube will. So while you can regenerate health you do need to use health items to restore lost cubes, just having one cube left would make any firefight really difficult and tense. I find that difficult to believe. I have not even played Quake 2 or Unreal ten times through and they are some of my all time favourites.

I am going to assume that you are talking about the games, not the characters, in which case: Sam is in completely different environments, fights enemies that dwarf the number and size of enemies Duke fights, has a different style of humour (Not a single mention of babes or boobs in the entire series as far as I remember.). The only things these games seem to have in common is that they have a dumb, unrealistic protagonist and are arcade shooters. Ripoff is such a strong word, especially considering DNF goes even farther away from Sam's premise with the health regen and carry limit.

Shammy is one of the scariest creatures I fought in FPS games of my childhood. Those teeth, the massive claws and all the blood...*shivers*

There are all statistics though. They don't predict which brand will perform better for you the individual, only say it is un/likely. One person can have a streak of bad luck with the same brand that the other person swears by. By the way, I would love to see Elbrus enter the mainstream competition one day. EPIC/VLIW are very interesting architectures and would surely shake things up a bit, considering they will usually have far lower clock frequencies due to their very high IPC (Elbrus 2000 from 6 years ago can do over 20 instructions per cycle which is unheard of with today's processors, and was only clocked at 300 MHz.).

In September you will forget Duke Nukem Forever ever happened.

We could complicate it further and turn the words themselves into a whole math or programming problem.

Artform and hobby. Though I can not easily distinguish the difference between 'hobby' and 'toy' in the poll. You know you are into the art in games when your screenshots folder has over 1000 files and it takes you 5 minutes to decide the right angle and situation for the shot.

I never needed any flashlight mod. Not for the first playthrough, or the next ones, that includes my Nightmare run. But making Hell as dark as it is and not give the player a flashlight at all was just cruel. At least light up the place a little better with more scary candle lighting or whatever.

Did Gearbox really add the 4 weapons carry limit as an option? Why the bloody hell didn't they just change the original limit and rebalance the game a bit to compensate? By the way, Serious Sam 3 will have modding and mapping resources, even more toys to play with than what the Serious Sam HDs offered. Croteam do give a shit. You can even talk to one of the programmers personally over at the Sam community forums. We also had one of the modellers register as a member there and gave quite a few sneak peaks as well as chatting with us. It is very rare when you aren't talking to a clueless PR tool that the company hires to pretend they give a shit about what the public has to say, Croteam actually read what fans and haters alike have to say and comment on it personally in some cases. Croteam actually try to fix all bugs, problems and even annoyances reported by fans. The number of updates released for the HD remakes alone were probably a good dozen or so, while companies with far larger budgets like EA or Monolith whose developers don't even read their own community forums just drag a few random in-house discovered problems from a hat and leave the rest in the game for the unforeseeable future. That is actually optimistic considering in many cases bug-crippled games don't get patched at all. So yeah, go team Cro!

Is the darkness really that big of a deal? I've never had the need for a duct tape mod and I'm nightblind. I use the lighting from enemies' attacks to see where they are in the darkness. I will admit that zsecs and commandos were quite a problem since they fire bullets, and melee-only enemies as well if I lose track of them.

I hope I am not the only one immune to reverse psychology around here.

How can you even submit a post in this state? Do you never read what you write? Do you just randomly type on the keyboard, hit submit and then leave the page without ever looking back? I do not understand how a post like this can happen. This is a message board, not an instant messenger like WLM or IRC. You can, and should, actually take your time.

When you notice a flaw or anomaly in something, you will never be able to not notice it ever again. This goes especially for music for me.

Anyone who claims to have never read YouTube comments would be lying.

It took me some time to "get" Windows 7 but now I rarely run into any issues and know how to accomplish my goals.

I bet all the children over at YouTube never give this any thought and just demand another episode pronto.

Same here. Win7 x64, widescreen 1080p, AMD GPU... and Doom 3 runs beautifully. I did not even reinstall it after my OS drive died and took my XP install with it to the realms of digital netherworld, it worked just fine upon running the exe raw. This, ladies and gentlemen, is the beauty of not integrating software into the host system too deeply. That includes storing user data locally, as in, not in Users nor in the registry. Doom 3 does use a few registry keys for version identifying and such but all that is needless once the game is fully patched.

It would be hilarious if they bleeped out naughty words in porn films.

So how much "hard work" does it take to model and texture a hat?

I own a cellphone, but not one of those "smartphones". My 5 years old phone makes calls, that is all I need a cellphone for. I read about this a while ago, cool stuff. The simple minded will however not care. all they want to see are big GHz numbers.

PhysX does not have to be strictly GPU accelerated.

You talk as if Black Mesa will be released before Ross is done with the series.

She is supposed to be awful, late in the game she turns around against you. Thankfully the Hivemind saves the day and gives her what she deserves.

Too bad, I like dirty boys. Bah shoulda told me earlier. Being a straight guy I am very much disturbed by this little conversation. Listening to/watching Left to my Own Devices by the Pet Shop Boys, a live performance in 2004. It is a shame how rarely 12" mixes are performed live, pure sonic bliss if you ask me.